Item #53167 Electric Railways and Tramways, their Construction and Operation. A Practical Handbook, setting forth at length the modern application of Electricity as a Motive Power for Railways and Tramways; containing Complete Financial and Engineering Data as to Design, Construction, Equipment and Working; fully Illustrating all modern and accepted types of Machinery and Apparatus; and describing in detail the principal Installations of Europe and America. Philip DAWSON.

Electric Railways and Tramways, their Construction and Operation. A Practical Handbook, setting forth at length the modern application of Electricity as a Motive Power for Railways and Tramways; containing Complete Financial and Engineering Data as to Design, Construction, Equipment and Working; fully Illustrating all modern and accepted types of Machinery and Apparatus; and describing in detail the principal Installations of Europe and America.

London: Offices of "Engineering," 1897. [Engineering] FINE PRIZE BINDING, a revised and enlarged edition. Quarto (29 x 23cm), pp.[20]; xxviii; 678; [22]. With frequent in-text engraved illustrations and tables. Contemporary burgundy half morocco with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and red cloth over boards with a UCL stamp in gilt to upper board. Top edge gilt; dark grey endpapers. University College London prize plate dated 1900-1901 to front pastedown. Very light spotting to edges and preliminaries. Spine lightly sunned to a brown colour, with some rubbing to joints, corners and and chipping to head cap. Very good. Item #53167

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